Biographical Memoirs

Biographical Memoirs

Volume 47

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309022453
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309598927
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1975
  • Month: January
  • Pages: 560
  • Language: English

Biographic Memoirs: Volume 47 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.

  • Biographical Memoirs
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Paul Rufus Burkholder
    • HIS INTELLECTUAL BASE
    • COLLEGE DAYS
    • GRADUATE SCHOOL
    • THE DEPRESSION
    • TO CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
    • BACK TO AQUATIC BIOLOGY
    • A YALE MAN
    • CHLORAMPHENICOL DISCOVERED
    • A PALACE REVOLUTION
    • GEORGIA BECKONS
    • BACK TO COLUMBIA
    • AN OVERVIEW
    • Bibliography
  • Arthur Louis Day
    • Bibliography
  • William Draper Harkins
    • Bibliography
  • Vladimir Nikolaevich Ipatieff
    • HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
      • Awards and Medals
      • Honorary Degrees
      • Honorary Memberships
    • Bibliography
    • UNITED STATES PATENTS
  • Herbert Spencer Jennings
    • CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH (1868-1886)
    • BETWEEN HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY (1886-1890)
    • LEHRJAHRE (1890-1897):
    • DESCENT AND RISE (1897-1907): MONTANA, DARTMOUTH, MICHIGAN, NAPLES, PENNSYLVANIA, JOHNS HOPKINS
    • AT THE, SUMMIT: JOHNS HOPKINS (1906-1938)
    • THE FINAL YEARS (1937-1917)
    • HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
      • Academic Career
      • Honorary Degrees
      • Visiting Lectureships and Professorships
      • Awards
      • Memberships
      • Corresponding Memberships
      • Honorary Fellow
      • Editorial Boards
      • Professional Societies and Offices
      • Miscellaneous
    • SOURCE MATERIALS
      • Biographies, Obituaries, and other Published Articles on Jennings
    • Bibliography
  • Alfred Harrison Joy
    • Bibliography
  • Edward C. Kendall
    • HONORS AND AWARDS
      • Awards
      • Honorary Degrees (Doctor of Science)
      • Member
      • Honorary Member
    • Bibliography
  • Eugene Lindsay Opie
    • Bibliography
  • John Rodman Paul
    • Bibliography
  • William Thomas Pecora
    • Bibliography
  • Jack Schultz
    • Bibliography
      • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES
  • Stanley Smith Stevens
    • ADMINISTRATOR
    • TEACHER
    • PHILOSOPHER
    • SCIENTIST
    • Bibliography
  • John Torrence Tate
    • EARLY LIFE
    • UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
    • THE NEBRASKA AND EARLY MINNESOTA YEARS, 1914-1917
    • WORLD WAR I AND RESEARCH AT THE BUREAU OF STANDARDS, 1917-1918
    • TEACHING AND RESEARCH AT MINNESOTA, 1919-1940
    • TATE'S CAREER AS EDITOR
    • TATE'S BRIEF ROLE AS DEAN
    • THE WAR PERIOD, 1941-1945
    • RETURN TO MINNESOTA
    • TATE'S PERSONALITY
    • HONORS OF VARIED NATURE
    • FAMILY LIFE
    • FINALE
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Melville Lawrence Wolfrom
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Acknowledgments for the Photographs

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